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Debian DSA-2236-1 : exim4 - command injection

high Nessus Plugin ID 53880

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that Exim, Debian's default mail transfer agent, is vulnerable to command injection attacks in its DKIM processing code, leading to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2011-1407 )

The default configuration supplied by Debian does not expose this vulnerability.

The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected by this problem.

Solution

Upgrade the exim4 packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 4.72-6+squeeze2.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1407

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/exim4

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2236

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 53880

File Name: debian_DSA-2236.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/13/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exim4, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 5/12/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1407

DSA: 2236